Improvement in seeding-plows



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Seed-Planter. No. 27.766; a Patented Apr. 10, 1360.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

O. ATKINSON, OF VERMONT, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEEDlNG-PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 27,766, dated April 10,1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, U. ATKINSON, of Vermont, in the county of Fulton andState of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Oombination of aPlow and Seeding-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention; Fig. 2, a plan or top viewof the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

The object of this invention is to obtain an implement for plantingseed, and at the same time for preparing the ground in a more properstate than usual to receive the seed and favor its rapid germination andgrowth.

The invention consists in an arrangement of rotary colters,double-mold-board share, subsoil-share, and seed-distributing device,ashereinafter shown and described, whereby the desired result is obtained.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct myinvention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents an axle, having a wheel, B, at each end of it, and B B aretwo parallel bars, the front ends of which are secured to the axle A andthe back ends to the handles 0 U of a plow by pivots a.

D is the plow-beam, which is fitted between uprights or guides I) b onthe axle A.

Between the upper parts of the uprights or guides b b a bar, E, issecured by a pin or bolt, 0. This bar E extends back over the beam D,and said bar has two perforated bars, (1 (I, passing through it, whichbars d d are attached to the beam D. V

To the bar E a perforated bar, e, is attached, said bare passingdownthrough the beam D and the double-mold-board share F, which is attachedto the lower parts of the handles 0 O, and is braced near its front endby a standard, j, which also serves as a sheth for the bar 0. At thelower end of the bar 0 there is a small share, 0. The double-niold-boardshare F is of the usual form, or of a form approximating thereto, and ithas a rotary colter, G, at its front part and one at each side. Thefront colter G is directly over the front of the doublemold-board shareF, as shown in Fig. 1, and it is simply a circular metal cutter hung ina pendaut,g, attached to beam D. The side colters G G, which are of thesame form as the front one, are at the back part of the share, and theyare fitted or hung in pendants h h, which pass loosely through the barsB B, and are attached to bars H H, which are secured at their front endsto small uprights Mat the front ends of the bars B B, the back ends ofthe bars H H being'fitted in either of a series of notches, j, made inplates attached to the handles 0 0.

At the back part of the beam D there is a wheel, I, the axis of which isfitted in pendants 70, attached to the beam, and to the lower parts ofthe handles 0 0 an axle, J, is attached, said axle having a wheel, Z, ateach end.

To one side of the wheel I there is attached a projection, m, and to oneof the pendants, it, there is secured an elastic bar, 1, the upper partof which is bent at right angles to its lower portion, is perforated,and passes through the bottom of a seed-box, K, on the beam D, andserves the purpose of an ordinary seed-distributing slide. Theelasticity of the bar l has a tendency to keep its upper horizontal partfully within the seed box. L is a seed-tube, which leads from theseed-box K down behind the share 6". v

The operation is as followsrAs the implement is drawn along the coltersGr cut the sod or earth, and the double mold-board F raises the earthslightly and loosens it. As the latter passes over the mold-board theshare 6* forms a furrow, which receives the seed from the box K, and theseed is distributed from the box in consequence of the projection mthrowing the bar l outward at every revolution of wheel I, while theelasticity of the bar gives it the return movement. The depth of thefurrow made by share 6* may be regulated, as desired, by adjusting barE, and the depth of the cut of the double-mold-board share F may beregulated by the same means, the bar E being adjusted by pins b passingthrough it and the bars (I (I. The depth of the cut of the side colters,G, is regulated by adjusting the bars H.

From the above description it will be seen that the earth will be wellpulverized and the seed covered by a loose layer of soil permeable toair and moisture,wl1ile the colters Grender the work of the doublemold-board F comparatively light, and the sustaining of the implement bythe wheels B B I Z Z prevents much frie tion which would otherwise beproduced.

2. The supporting of the implement by the wheels B B I l i, whenarranged with the beam D, axle A, and bar E, substantially as shown,

Having thusdescribed myinvention, whatI to graduate the depth of thecutof the shares, claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 1 asspecified. Patent is- 1. The arrangementofthedoublc-mold-board IATKINSON share F, colters G, subsoil-share e", and a suit- Witnesses:

able seed-distributing device for joint operation, as set forth.

HENRY W. TAYLOR, W. B. ATKINSON.

